Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 2/17/21


“And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker.' So God made a farmer.” So began the now famous speech delivered by the late legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey to the 1978 Future Farmers of America convention. The speech gained nationwide attention when it was used in a two-minute ad for Dodge Ram in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl in 2013. The “God Made a Farmer” ad was one of the most popular in the Super Bowl that year. Harvey’s speech came to mind after I tuned into a virtual auxin training session delivered by North Carolina State University Extension Weed Specialist Charlie Cahoon...

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